- Review the exercises and practice sessions you have completed in this course. (Loving Kindness, Subtle mind, Visualization, meditation etc.) Choose two practices that you have determined to be most beneficial. How can you implement these practices in your personal life to foster “mental fitness”? Provide specific examples.
I really found the Subtle Mind practice and visualization to be the two most beneficial exercises during this course. The Subtle Mind exercise really created a calming peace within me and I was able to open my mind to more positive thoughts and let the stress just melt away. I still plan to practice the subtle mind at least once a week.
Visualization is my all time favorite to help me go to sleep at night or wind down after a long day of work. I love listening to the guide's voice and having them "walk" my mind through a nice visualization that I can get lost in and drift of to sleep. I also practice visualization without a guide, I do this by daydreaming at work that I am really on a beach relaxing instead of answering phone calls.
I plan to implement these practices into my personal life by using them to prevent and manage daily stress along with physical exercise. The subtle mind practice can be done at least twice a week, once at the beginning and once towards the end of the week. I can also practice visualization daily when I need to escape in my mind or I need help falling asleep.
LaMargaret
ReplyDeleteIt is so neat how each of us in the class took to different exercises, but each found something we can use in our daily lives.
I also find that a little daydreaming can help me relieve tension when I am stressed at work.
Best of luck.
Hi La Margaret,
ReplyDeleteIt seems that the one thing the whole class has in common is that we all know that we have to be of example through the way we live our lives for our clients to be able to fully understand the things that were trying to help them implement in their lives. Great project.